Implementation Consulting Services

Implementing an organization-wide system for managing time, expense, projects and people presents challenges which should not be underestimated. It requires knowledge and understanding of both the business aspects of the departments affected as well as the best methodology to plan, configure and deploy the system.

Unanet consultants have expertise in each of these areas that will ensure that your new system is deployed faster, and with a better fit for the needs of the different roles impacted by your processes and supporting software.

Furthermore, your employees will accelerate their understanding of the system through working closely with Unanet consultants, and faster skills transfer will be accomplished. This results in minimum risk to you achieving your business goals, with an accelerated on-time, on-budget implementation, and a faster return on investment.

Unanet’s proven implementation methodology executed with more than 400 customers includes the following key elements:

Project Planning and Management:
Establishing and managing the Unanet Implementation Project Plan identifying activities, timescales, and responsibilities. Critical success factors are agreed. Assumptions are identified.

Requirements and Process Definition:
Understanding, and defining, customer specific requirements and processes in support of implementing Unanet.

Evaluating and validating how best to use the product to address new processes and identified business needs. Defining how different roles, business rules and processes will be supported.

System Setup and Integration:
Translating the requirements identified into a configured system, using defined properties to control the fundamental behavior of the system. A system administrator is lead through this process to accelerate their learning of the application.

Typically, integration with accounting and other business systems will take place at this time. Optionally, Unanet can be customized to enforce unique policies and business rules regarding timesheet and expense submittal.

Training and Validating the Approach:
Unanet uses a ‘Train the Trainer’ approach to train key customer personnel on key application functionality in order to provide them with sufficient knowledge to train their user community.

Unanet consultants will also assist with the population of data into Unanet and testing the Unanet configuration to validate that business requirements are satisfied.

Rollout Support:
As the system is deployed across the organization, Unanet will provide support to customer personnel during Unanet rollout, helping to take corrective action when problems are encountered.

This practical, proven, phased and structured approach delivers the benefits of a timely, on-cost deployment of your new system, resulting in satisfied users and increased return on investment.

For more information, and to discuss your specific requirements, please contact us.